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Our books may be purchased through our online store.​ 
Or from the retailers, listed below.
Please note, the store price includes p&p within the UK.
Cover shot of the guidebook, Highfields, a most handsome suburb
Cover from The Villas of Edgerton book
Highfields: A Most Handsome Suburb
by David Griffiths

​Photography by Andrew Caveney
Published December 2020


The absorbing story behind the development of Highfields, Huddersfield’s first suburb, is written by one of the town's most knowledgeable local historians.
​David Griffiths paints a picture of a distinctive and architecturally significant area, acknowledged today by its conservation area status. This is an outstanding companion to the author's The Villas of Edgerton.

Paperback
ISBN: 9780995632820
£9.95​ from retailers
£12.45, including p&p for UK addresses, from our website store.
The Villas of Edgerton: Home to Huddersfield’s Victorian Elite by David Griffiths 
​P
hotography by Andrew Caveney
Published June 2017


Privilege, power and privacy were of the essence in Huddersfield’s elite suburb. This illustrated history of the district’s development and its grand houses documents their Victorian and Edwardian residents’ leading roles in trade and industry, politics, education, churches, sport and more. It includes a house-by-house tour of Edgerton’s architectural heritage, still remarkably well-preserved in a mature wooded landscape.
​

164 pages, 21cmx21cm, paperback.
ISBN 978-0-9956328-1-3.
£12.95 from retailers
£15.45, including p&p for UK addresses, from our website store.
REVIEWS
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Guardian: 'Compelling guide to the pretensions, ambitions and social mores of Huddersfield’s Victorian elite'.
​

Yorkshire Post: 'An impressively well-researched, lavishly illustrated and stylishly designed study'

Book - the Old Yards of Huddersfield
​The Old Yards of Huddersfield
by L. Browning and L.K. Senior
2nd Edition revised by Betty & Michael Hill 2004

32 pages, A5 pbk
£4.50 +p&p
​These two booklets are available from the Civic Society store. Or from stockists or publications by post, below.
Book cover - The buildings of Huddersfield
​The Buildings of Huddersfield: Five Architectural Walks
By David Wyles
2nd edition 2016.
A5 paperback.
ISBN: 978-0-9956328-0-6.
£4.95 + p&p.


Retailers
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​Children's Bookshop, 37-39 Lidget Street, Lindley HD3 3JF
Local Studies Library, Huddersfield Library & Art Gallery, Princess Alexandra Walk HD1 2SU
Newstrack, Huddersfield Station, St George's Square HD1 1JB
Salts Mill Bookshop, Salts Mill, Victoria Road, Saltaire, Bradford BD18 3LA
Visitor Information Point, Huddersfield Library & Art Gallery, Princess Alexandra Walk HD1 2SU
Waterstones,12/13 Kingsgate Centre, King Street HD1 2QB
Westbourne News, 81 Westbourne Road HD1 4LG
WHSmith, 1-3 The Shambles HD1 2QJ

Joint HCS/ Huddersfield Local History Society Publication: 

Huddersfield Heritage Trail
​
Discover Huddersfield is a partnership of several local interest groups and organisations. It organises a programme of walks and events as well as a series of free trail leaflets, each based on a theme connected with the town’s historic, cultural and social heritage.

 The 2020 walks' programme will be available early in New Year from local information points and libraries.

​It includes 17 walks around the town with themes including architecture, radical history, music and Caribbean heritage. 
Walks are also arranged around areas including Almondbury, Birkby and Highfields. ​

​The walks, on afternoons and evenings from March to October, usually take 1.5 to 2 hours and cost £3 per person, apart from four free walks organised in conjunction with the national Heritage Open Days festival in September.

Copies of the walks programme can be found at local libraries and information points, Huddersfield Railway Station and a number of other town centre outlets or by going to the Discover Huddersfield website. 

In addition, a series of free trails produced by experts in their particular field are also available, in print or on the website, for those who want to discover the town for themselves.

Discover Huddersfield Chairman, Vernon O’Reilly, said: 'What better way can there be of discovering the extraordinary variety and quality of our town’s heritage than by joining us on our walks?

'The walks and trails provide local people, students and visitors with an ideal opportunity to appreciate the extraordinary diversity and wealth of historic and cultural locations that have shaped Huddersfield.'

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These are the themes of current trail leaflets, which can be downloaded by going to: www.discoverhuddersfield.com

​Historic Buildings
Public Art
Radical Heritage
Real Ale
World War 1 
Transport
Music
The Ramsden Family
European Exile Communities 
Shuddersfield
Cosmopolitan Huddersfield
Caribbean Heritage
Building Stones
​Birkby

University
Lindley
​Civic Celebration

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